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Coopting Identity in Algeria 1 crisis states programme development research centre www Working Paper no.7 CO-OPTING IDENTITY: THE MANIPULATION OF BERBERISM, THE FRUSTRATION OF DEMOCRATISATION AND THE GENERATION OF VIOLENCE IN LGERIA A Hugh Roberts Development Research Centre LSE December 2001 Copyright © Hugh Roberts, 2001 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the publisher nor be issued to the public or circulated in any form other than that in which it is published. Requests for permission to reproduce any part of this Working Paper should be sent to: The Editor, Crisis States Programme, Development Research Centre, DESTIN, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. Crisis States Programme Working papers series no.1 English version: Spanish version: ISSN 1740-5807 (print) ISSN 1740-5823 (print) ISSN 1740-5815 (on-line) ISSN 1740-5831 (on-line) 1 Crisis States Programme Co-opting Identity: The manipulation of Berberism, the frustration of democratisation, and the generation of violence in Algeria Hugh Roberts DESTIN, LSE Acknowledgements This working paper is a revised and extended version of a paper originally entitled ‘Much Ado about Identity: the political manipulation of Berberism and the crisis of the Algerian state, 1980-1992’ presented to a seminar on Cultural Identity and Politics organized by the Department of Political Science and the Institute for International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in April 1996. Subsequent versions of the paper were presented to a conference on North Africa at Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY, under the title 'Berber politics and Berberist ideology in Algeria', in April 1998 and to a staff seminar of the Government Department at the London School of Economics, under the title ‘Co-opting identity: the political manipulation of Berberism and the frustration of democratisation in Algeria’, in February 2000. I wish to thank Professor Robert Price of the Department of Political Science and Professor Mike Watts of the Institute of International Studies at Berkeley, Professor Richard Antoun of Binghamton University and Dr Francisco Panizza of the Department of Government at LSE for their invitations and hospitality, and their colleagues and other participants in these events for the discussion they provided. The additional research on which the later versions of the paper have drawn has been carried out at the Development Studies Institute at LSE since October 1997, initially within the framework of the Contemporary Algeria Research Project and, since October 2000, within the framework of the Crisis States Programme of the Development Research Centre. I should like to thank BP-Amoco Ltd. for its generous funding of the Contemporary Algeria project from October 1997 to September 1999, and the DRC for its support for the research conducted since October 2000. I should also like to express my appreciation to the Development Studies Institute for the hospitality and support it has provided for my research from 1997 to the present. My debts to my Algerian friends, especially in Kabylia, cannot be detailed here. As they know well, the critical element of the analysis which follows does not imply a lack of sympathy for the language rights of Algerian Berber speakers, which I have supported since the 1970s. * “Ilah ghaleb, kulshi yeqleb.” “Oh God, everything is turned inside out.” (Slimane Azem) "...the relation between idea and context is an internal one. The idea gets its sense from the role it plays in the system." (Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science) 2 Introduction The purpose of this working paper is to explore one of the political premises of the current violence in Algeria, namely the character of the identity politics which has developed in the Berberophone Kabylia region of the country, which has this year been the theatre of the most sustained riots in Algeria’s history, and the first riots of any significance to have occurred in Algeria since October 1988. A secondary, theoretical, purpose is to demonstrate and establish the analytical value of the concepts of forms of politics and political mutation which have been central to my work for many years but remain to be generally taken up and put to use in contemporary political studies. It is a striking and important fact about the riots of October 1988, which heralded the subsequent dismantling of the FLN-state, that, whereas they quickly spread from Algiers to other parts of the country, they did not spread to Kabylia, despite the fact that the region’s capital, Tizi Ouzou, is a mere 60 miles from Algiers and that a large percentage of the Algiers population are Kabyle. It is an equally striking feature of the recent riots that, while they have also spread to, or at least been imitated in, other parts of Algeria, especially in the east of the country, they have not (so far) spread to Algiers itself, in the sense of infecting the Algiers population, and that the only disturbances which have taken place in Algiers in connection with these riots have occurred when the Kabyle protestors have come to Algiers en masse, as on June 14 last, to organise demonstrations of their own in the city. The disturbances this year, in Kabylia and elsewhere, have exhibited three remarkable contrasts to the 1988 riots. In 1988, the régime very quickly declared a state of siege and called on the army to restore order, whereas throughout this year’s disturbances the army (as distinct from the gendarmerie, which has always been present in the region as a matter of course) has not intervened at all.1 The death toll this year, while entirely deplorable - at over 100 killed as well as many injured over seven months, is of a different order from the several hundred killed in 1988 over a mere six days.2 The 1988 riots, although of exceptional intensity, were rapidly brought to an end; having begun in Algiers on the night of October 4, and having spread across the country by October 9, they nonetheless ended everywhere on the night of October 10. This year’s riots, which began in Kabylia on April 23, not only continued throughout the summer but still cannot be said as of now (early December) to have been brought to a complete end.3 1 The gendarmerie is charged with maintaining order in the Algerian countryside and - unlike the Surêté Nationale, which has this responsibility in the towns and comes under the interior ministry - it comes under the ministry of defence and its commander is a member of the army general staff 2 The official death toll in 1988 was 159 (Libération, October 24, 1988), while unofficial estimates ranged from 400 to over 600 dead (Le Monde, October 25, 1988). No official casualty figures have been published for the whole of the 2001 disturbances. A provisional but detailed list established independently by Dr Salah Eddine Sidhoum gives the figure of 95 people killed in the Kabyle disturbances (including 9 killed in demonstrations organized by the Kabyles in Algiers) between late April and June, 2001; two other people were killed in separate disturbances south-eastern Algeria; see Salah Eddine Sidhoum, Liste non-exhaustive des victimes des émeutes en Algérie, Avril-Juin 2001, Algeria-Watch, June 2001 (http://www.algeria-watch.org) 3 For an early analysis of the dynamics of the riots which explained why they repeatedly resumed after every lull, see my article, ‘Algeria: riots without end?’ in Middle East International, 651 (June 1, 2001), 16-18. 3 But the 2001 riots have had at least one major feature in common with those of 1988. In both cases, the principal object of the rioters’ anger was what Algerians call la hogra (in standard Arabic, el-hagra), by which they mean the contempt with which they are treated by the authorities and the humiliations heaped upon them as their notional rights are routinely violated by official abuses of power. That this was what was at issue was immediately recognised by the coverage of the initial disturbances by the independent Algerian press, many of whose reporters are Kabyles.4 And it was because the rioters in Kabylia made it clear that their principal grievance was la hogra that their actions struck a chord elsewhere and their revolt proved contagious beyond Kabylia. However, notwithstanding the clearly expressed outlook of the rioters, one of the two political parties based on the Kabyle constituency, the Rally for Culture and Democracy (Rassemblement pour la Culture et la Démocratie, RCD), published a series of declarations in the early stages of the riots which proffered an entirely different view of what was at issue.5 Instead of articulating the Kabyles’ rejection of la hogra, notably their anger at the behaviour of the local gendarmerie which had precipitated the disturbances6 and, more generally, their anger at the socio-economic distress – mass unemployment, inadequate housing, etc. – they suffered in consequence of the government’s neglect of and indifference to their interests, grievances which tended to unite the Kabyles with their fellow-Algerians in all other parts of the country, 7 the RCD insisted that the main source of Kabyle frustration and anger was the identity question and specifically the government’s longstanding refusal to accord national and official status to the Berber language, Thamazighth,8 an issue which clearly distinguished, and tended to isolate, the population of Kabylia from those of other regions and thus to forfeit the sympathy and support of the rest of Algerian public opinion. That the Algerian authorities considered they had an interest in defining the problem in terms of the identity and language issue cannot be doubted.
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